Pop Quiz - X-RAY What is it?

[billski]

1. Question: What did the x-ray find?
2. Question: Why is it potentially so bad?

Correct answers later in this broadcast.

 

[Geoff]

The dog ate something that looks like pieces of PVC linked together with monofilament line. I can't identify exactly what it is. Some kind of kid toy? It's causing intestinal blockage.

 

[Grassi21]

is the image in the right one of those collapsable canes that blind people use? maybe the seeing-eye dog is trying to sabotage his master? ;-)

 

[drjeff]

The dog ate something that looks like pieces of PVC linked together with monofilament line. I can't identify exactly what it is. Some kind of kid toy? It's causing intestinal blockage.

is the image in the right one of those collapsable canes that blind people use? maybe the seeing-eye dog is trying to sabotage his master? ;-)

Kind of thinking along those lines too(collapsable cane, defiantely a pet, intestinal blockage stuff).

What I'm wondering, is did the pet eat the thing itself, or did the pets owner (or neighborhood kids) stick it up there???

 

[mondeo]

Magnets. They can attract each other through the stomach wall. Specifically,

"Although ingested nonmagnetic foreign bodies are likely to be passed spontaneously without consequence, ingested magnets may attract each other through the intestinal wall and cause severe damage, such as pressure necrosis, perforation, intestinal fistulas, volvulus, and . . ."

So I cheated.

 

[wa-loaf]

Magnets. They can attract each other through the stomach wall. Specifically,

"Although ingested nonmagnetic foreign bodies are likely to be passed spontaneously without consequence, ingested magnets may attract each other through the intestinal wall and cause severe damage, such as pressure necrosis, perforation, intestinal fistulas, volvulus, and . . ."

So I cheated.

Good call, one of those little kid magnet building sets.

 

[mondeo]

Good call, one of those little kid magnet building sets.

No, really, I cheated. Picked off the source of the pictures. The part in quotes is directly from the abstract for the New England Journal of Medicine.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

the x-ray techs probably thought,"At least it's not another person who stuck something up their ass"

 

[billski]

The dirty details below. Moral of the story, don't do it - they grab onto each other, with flesh in between and can cause some nasty consequences.

"A 9-year-old boy ingested 23 magnets (Panel A). Four days later, he had clinical and surgical evidence of intestinal perforation and peritonitis due to pressure necrosis of the bowel. In an unrelated incident, a developmentally delayed 13-year-old boy ingested 15 magnets. Ten days later, volvulus and intestinal occlusion developed (Panel B, arrows). Both patients were operated on without complications, and all magnets were removed. Although ingested nonmagnetic foreign bodies are likely to be passed spontaneously without consequence, ingested magnets may attract each other through the intestinal wall and cause severe damage, such as pressure necrosis, perforation, intestinal fistulas, volvulus, and obstruction. Thus, close observation and early intervention are warranted after ingestion of magnets.:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/360/26/2770

 

[Johnskiismore]

Wow, never thought about this........ or ingesting magnets! At least they are okay